Debates in Mathematics Education (2^nd Ed.) Debates in Subject Teaching Series

This new and updated second edition of Debates in Mathematics Education explores the major issues that mathematics teachers encounter in their daily lives. By engaging with established and contemporary debates, this volume promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.

Divided into five accessible sections, this book investigates and offers fresh insight into topics of central importance in mathematics education, with this second edition including new discussions and chapters on:

• Classic and contemporary issues of pedagogy, politics, philosophy and sociology of mathematics education
• International comparisons of achievement
• Digital technologies for teaching
• Mastery in mathematics
• Pop culture and mathematics
• Whether mathematics can be harmful

Designed to stimulate discussion and support you in your own research, writing and practice through suggested questions and activities throughout, Debates in Mathematics Education will be a valuable resource for any student or practising teacher, and those engaged in initial teacher education, continuing professional development or Master's level study. This book also has much to offer to those leading mathematics departments in schools and initial teacher education programmes, and to beginning doctoral students looking for a survey of the field of mathematics education research.

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction to the series

Introduction to the volume

Preface: Welcome to the second edition of Debates in Mathematics Education

Acknowledgements

SECTION ONE: DEBATES ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS

1. Learning About Mathematics Teaching From Other Countries

Dylan Wiliam

2. Mathematics Education In Translation: Mastery, Policy and Evidence

Mark Boylan

SECTION TWO: DEBATES ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE

3. The Dark Side of Mathematics: Damaging Effects Of The Overvaluation Of Mathematics

Paul Ernest

4. School Mathematics As Social Classification

Peter Gates and Andy Noyes

5. Ability Thinking

Mark Boylan and Hilary Povey

6. Pedagogical Possibilities For All Attainment Teaching

Hilary Povey

7. Should ‘Teaching For Understanding’ Be The Pinnacle Of Mathematics Education?

Anna Llewellyn

8. Mathematics, Gender And Normativity

Mark McCormack and Luis E. Morales

9. The Financial Crisis, Popular Culture And Maths Education

Heather Mendick

SECTION THREE: DEBATES ABOUT CLASSROOM MATTERS

10. Planning For The Unexpected: Working Within Symbolically Structured Environments

Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair

11. Effective Questioning And Responding In The Mathematics Classroom

John Mason

12. Debates In Task Design

Anne Watson

13. Fake News, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Divisions, Likely Futures? Debates On Digital Technologies In Mathematics Education

Keith Jones

14. Mental Maths: Just About What We Do In Our Heads?

Gwen Ineson and Sunita Babbar

15. The Role Of Examples In Mathematics Teaching

Tim Rowland

SECTION FOUR: DEBATES ABOUT MATHEMATICS TEACHING AND SOCIAL CONTENT

16. Mathematics And Politics? Climate Change In The Mathematics Classroom

Richard Barwell

17. Mathematical Literacy: What Is It? And Is It Important?

Hamsa Venkat

18. History Of Mathematics In And For The Curriculum

Leo Rogers

SECTION FIVE: DEBATES ABOUT ASSESSMENT

19. Formative Assessment In Mathematics Education: Key Debates

Alison Barnes & Rachel Marks

20. The Fitness And Impact Of GCSE Mathematics Examinations

Ian Jones

21. Choosing The Future: Which Mathematics?

Cathy Smith

Gwen Ineson is a senior lecturer in Mathematics Education at Brunel University London, UK, where she is director of postgraduate research and responsible for the primary mathematics programme.

Hilary Povey is Professor Emerita in Mathematics Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she is engaged in research, professional writing and curriculum development.